Sillifant v. Sheriff of New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding joint occupancy “raises the inference that any one or all of [the occupants] possessed the cocaine [but] [w]ithout more . . . [joint occupancy] would be insufficient to sustain [a] possession conviction[]”
• noting that the requirement of a substantial preliminary showing “is not lightly met”
• stating the rule without any caveat concerning communication among the officers
• defendants' occupancy of premises and proximity to location where drugs are found raise inference of constructive possession; evidence of nexus linking defendants to drugs is necessary to show constructive possession
• “[pjrobable cause exists to make a warrantless arrest when, at the moment of the arrest, the collective knowledge of the officers involved ... was ‘sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the [defendant] had committed or was committing an offense’ ”
• noting substantiality requirement \is not lightly met\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).